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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
April 8, 2015 - Introduced by Representative Meyers, cosponsored by Senator
Bewley. Referred to Committee on State Affairs and Government Operations.
AB154,1,3
1An Act to create 59.692 (2) (bm) of the statutes;
relating to: the authority of
2a town and of a county to zone shorelands in a town that is located entirely on
3an island in Lake Superior and authorized to exercise village powers.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a county must enact a shoreland zoning ordinance for all
shorelands in its unincorporated area. Current law defines a shoreland to be an area
within a certain distance from the edge of a navigable water. Under current law, if
an existing town ordinance relating to shorelands is more restrictive than a county
shoreland zoning ordinance enacted later and affecting the same shorelands, it
continues as a town ordinance in all respects to the extent of the greater restrictions.
Under this bill, if a town ordinance enacted by a town that is located entirely
on an island in Lake Superior and authorized to exercise village powers is more
restrictive than a county shoreland zoning ordinance, regardless of the order of
enactment, the town ordinance applies in all respects to the extent of the greater
restrictions.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB154,1
4Section
1. 59.692 (2) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
AB154,2,5
159.692
(2) (bm) If a town ordinance enacted by a town that is located entirely
2on an island in Lake Superior and authorized to exercise village powers under s.
360.22 (3) is more restrictive than an ordinance enacted under this section affecting
4the same shorelands, regardless of the order of enactment, the town ordinance
5applies in all respects to the extent of the greater restrictions, but not otherwise.
